Top-down control of multimodal sensitivity in the barn owl optic tectum

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 48, 2007, Pages 13279-13291

  Winkowski, Daniel E ^a,b   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Neurobiology Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Barn owl; Gaze control; Optic tectum; Superior colliculus: Arcopallium

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FOREBRAIN; GAZE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36849093985     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3937-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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